Dear God, Please Don’t Let Me Get

Attached To What’s Not Mine

By Rania Naim (Updated July 6, 2019)

Dear God,

Please don’t let me get attached to what’s not meant for me anymore. Don’t let me get
attached to something or someone that you plan on taking away from me.

I know your plan is unknown but until you reveal it to me, please make it easier. Don’t
let me hold on to what I need to let go of. Don’t let me fight for what I need to release.
Do not let me desire what will eventually destroy me. Do not let me love those who will
break my heart.

Because I get attached easily and I hold on to things tightly, so please don’t let my
mind want things that I can’t handle, don’t let my mind trick me into wanting things
I don’t need or things that are not good for me. Please don’t let my heart miss people
who don’t miss me. Don’t let my heart long for the ones who left. Don’t let my heart
fall in love with someone who doesn’t want to stay.

Please don’t let me get attached to the things that keep me up at night, to people who
leave me wondering and to places I’m not meant to live in. Bring me closer to what’s
meant for me, let me hold on to those who are meant to stay.

But let me forget about the things that were never meant to be, give me the faith I need
to believe that I’m better off without them. Give me the wisdom I need to realize that I
deserve so much better and that I’ll be happier somewhere else with somebody else.

Or just give me tolerance I need right now to be okay with not getting the things I want,
with not loving the ones I wanted to love and give me the patience I need to wait for
your blessings and wait for your gifts.

But for now, please don’t let me get attached to what’s wrong for me. Don’t let me
invest so much in things or people I’m bound to lose. Don’t let me want what’s not
mine. Don’t let me build a future around what’s temporary.